Tag Archives: deployment

I have the pleasure of interacting with lots of people who work with SharePoint while delivering my courses and sessions at conferences. One thing consistently comes up when I talk to people: Their organization paid for SharePoint, but they aren’t using the publishing features within SharePoint. Ack! Continue reading Stand Up for Your Publishing Rights→

Mauro Cardarelli has written a nice piece about measuring the success of a portal. Reading his post about a recent portal launch made me reflect on my not so recent portal launch. We are 9 months into a very large portal deployment, where we took a regular HTML intranet site and turned it into a behemoth portal site, handing over content control to the content owners and combing several smaller sites into the larger portal. It was quite a ride during development, and has been an interesting experience since deployment. Continue reading A tale from the SharePoint trenches→